Editing Continues

Some more from guest blogger Deb Jacobson

I have learned so much today my head hurts. We are now working with iMovie and we want to do a little more than simple editing. (I like simple editing – but progress can’t be stopped)

1. Separated the audio portion from the video and placed in another part of the video.
a. You can extract the sound from either the project portion or the event portion of iMovie
b. Select the clip that contains the audio you would like
c. Hold down the Command and the Shift Key and drag it to the project where you would like it.
d. Don’t worry – you can always move it.
2. Changing the level of the sound clip
a. If you would like your new sound clip to be louder than the original sound tract – you can increase its volume and decrease the originals volume or tell it to “duck” – which will automatically reduce one over the other.
3. Voice Over
a. I also experimented with voice over using my built in microphone. It worked great. The voice over becomes a separate sound clip, which can also be easily moved, trimmed, volume adjustments as the other sound clips.